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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Same. Short it nice, but it has to be unique and memorable too. Aux is an already existing word.

Things that don't exist yet

  • Lunix - sounds like linux and nix just with i and u swapped
  • Originix - very close to https://orignix.com/ but not the same
  • Nunix - New Nix
  • Froxin - Jumble of fork + nix
  • Apenix - Apex of nix
  • Nirofs - Nix Is a Read Only FileSystem

Suprisingly already exist

  • Nuxor - Lindt Nuxor is a chocolate
  • Aunix - auxiliary nix - https://www.aunixinternational.com/ already exists though
  • XiniX - a mirror of nix (xinix.nl exists though)
  • Lixin - shit this also exists as a brand
  • Fornix - fork + nix - is part of our brain
  • nixzen - spanish company
  • zenix - Zenith of nix - another spanish company?
  • Apaux - Apex of auxiliary nix - surprisingly is a band
  • Araknix - some toy
  • naaix - sounds like nice - is a damn boat company

Probably some LLM could come up with something too given a good prompt.

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[-] Shareni@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

I vote for nunix, it's the only one I'd remember easily.

Fornix sounds surprisingly sexual.

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Apenix

And this sounds like nix for apes 🐵

[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I read it as "a pin nix" like appendix with a lisp

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

We are just evolved apes with smartphones

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[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Considering the word fornication, I'm not surprised fornix sounds sexual

[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago
[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing them. Looking at the thread and the author's responses, it doesn't seem like he's open to changing the name. Not sure if that's off to a good start, but we'll see...

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[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He got convinced, its now Auxolotl!

https://github.com/auxolotl/

Theres going to be an official reevaluation once the governance has finished bootstrapping.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

That's definitely better! 👍

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[-] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AFAIK LUnix exists as the "little Unix" project aiming to run on the Commodore 6502 computers.

There's even a video where someone got it to run on a Famicom.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago
[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a human or pet name. Would be a good name a mascot, maybe 🤔

How did you come up with Stevie as a project name?

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[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Nicks - one of the world's most celebrated female singers, famously part of Fleetwood Mac in the 70s. Thought it was a funny pun.

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